Start off the end of 2011 with the Las Vegas Slam! (Please read the end note in this section for special details about a bonus slam to be held Dec. 15)
If’n you don’t know the drill for a slam, here’s the rundown:
- Poets sign up to compete for 2 rounds (which means 2 poems)
- We pick 5 judges from the audience
- Poets have 3 minutes to perform their pieces w/ a ten-second grace period before they start to lose points
- Poets may not use work by another writer, and may not use any props or musical accompaniment that isn’t created by their own body
- Top 3 scores of the night qualify for the postseason to compete for a space on the 2012 Las Vegas Slam Team going to National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, NC!
We don’t have a feature this month, but that’s not going to stop us from bringing some extra specialness to the show. We will still be holding our 2-hour pre-slam workshop starting at 4:30PM at Yayo Taco.
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Also, we will be holding a special extra slam on Dec. 15 to meet certification requirements for Poetry Slam, Inc. (the fine folks who run National Poetry Slam, Individual World Poetry Slam, and Women of the World Poetry Slam annually).
To make this bonus slam EXTRA special, we’ve decided to throw in a fun twist, so it’s going to be…. THE FIRST EVER SECRET SANTA SLAM!!!
All sign-ups for the Dec. 15th event will be PRE-ARRANGED. If you would like to sign up for Dec. 15th, please either make it known here on this event page in a comment, with a message to our slammaster A.J. Moyer, or by signing up at the Dec. 1st slam.
Between rounds on Dec. 1st, we will put the names of everyone signed up into a hat and draw to assign our Secret Santas. Whoever’s name you draw, you get to “Gift” that person a poem to be performed at the Dec. 15 Secret Santa Slam! For the second round of Secret Santa, your goal is to EMULATE YOUR SECRET SANTA!
So, for an example, let’s say AJ draws Calamity J’s name. He gets to assign Calamity J a poem to perform, let’s say Beau Sia’s “Horse Cock Manifesto,” and then for round two, AJ has to perform something as close to Calamity J’s style as possible, or even cover one of her poems!
This balances out a little of the disadvantage of surprise poems in round one and should be a ton of fun! This event will NOT count toward qualifications, but we still hope to see a ton of people out for a heckuva kickoff to the holidays!
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